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FALL RIVER, Mass. — In the days leading up to his death, Odin Lloyd and former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez corresponded through text messages about meeting, according to testimony given in court Tuesday. Prosecutors worked to tie Hernandez to the murder Tuesday through the testimony of Raymond MacDonald, a T-Mobile employee who spoke about Lloyd's cell phone records, and David Mackin, a state trooper who analyzed fingerprint evidence during the investigation. MacDonald, a member of T-Mobile's law enforcement relations group, was shown numerous pages of cell phone records from Lloyd's phone as well as text messages still stored in the phone. The...

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FALL RIVER, Mass. — In the days leading up to his death, Odin Lloyd and former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez corresponded through text messages about meeting, according to testimony given in court Tuesday.Prosecutors worked to tie...

MILFORD — A Bridgeport man shot by a man legally possessing a gun in a parking garage on Sunday morning is facing attempted murder charges, police said.
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MILFORD — First, it was the grueling hours after his sister's murder that tortured Matthew Ducsay, endless moments of wondering who had killed the aspiring actress and whether there would ever be justice for his family.
Those hours then turned into days....

MILFORD — Superior Court jurors seated in the murder trial of Matthew Pugh deliberated Friday without reaching a verdict.
The jury of nine women and three men have deliberated all day Friday and part of Thursday and asked to rehear the testimony of...

MILFORD — A Superior Court jury Friday morning will continue to deliberate the fate of Matthew Pugh, the man accused of the May 2006 slaying of aspiring actress Alexandra Ducsay.Jurors deliberated about 2 ½ hours Thursday without reaching a verdict...

HARTFORD — Prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to let them tell jurors hearing the murder case against Pedro Miranda about a previous murder conviction for which he is serving a sentence of life plus 100 years.
Miranda, 57, is on trial in Superior...

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A snapshot of Aaron Hernandez captured about an hour before Odin Lloyd's 2013 slaying shows the former New England Patriots tight end in high spirits, dancing in a gas station parking lot.
Perhaps his blithesome nature could be...

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HARTFORD — The state Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 100-year prison sentence Ackeem Riley received for killing a 16-year-old honor student in Hartford in 2006.
Riley, who is awaiting trial for another killing, was 17 when he shot and killed...

Plainville police officer and Vietnam veteran Robert Holcomb was executed by Gary Castonguay while investigating a burglary on the evening of Nov. 21, 1977. Four bullets entered 28-year-old Officer Holcomb's body as he chased 33-year-old Castonguay, a...

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Less than 24 hours after the Odin Lloyd homicide, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez placed several calls to one of his Bristol, Conn. co-defendants from the parking lot of the North Attleborough police station,...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The suspect in the slaying of a Connecticut National Guardsman shot after a night on the town in Springfield before he was due to be deployed overseas has been held without bail.Michael Rodriguez, of Holyoke, pleaded not guilty...

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Defense lawyers for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez have asked the court to prohibit prosecutors from showing the jury a .45 caliber Glock pistol - the same type of weapon investigators say was used to kill...

HARTFORD — When detectives began reinvestigating the 1987 murder of Mayra Cruz, a 12-year-old Hartford girl, they traveled to Miami to talk to Jose Diaz.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Less than 12 hours after Odin Lloyd was shot to death, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez failed to show up for his first session with a strength-and-conditioning coach who was going to help prepare him for the...

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Massachusetts prosecutors on Friday outlined Aaron Hernandez's movements in the hour leading up to Odin Lloyd's slaying, attempting to prove that the former New England Patriots tight end drove to Dorchester to pick up the victim...

HARTFORD — Four days after Mayra Cruz's body was discovered in East Windsor, her family held a wake at De Leon Funeral Home at 104 Main St. in Hartford.
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NEW HAVEN — A man serving 140 years for two killings has been sentenced to 55 years in prison in two other homicides.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Prosecutors have accused former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez of having a .45 caliber Glock in his possession the night of Odin Lloyd's 2013 slaying, and though they have not produced the gun, they used testimony from...

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